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Born in January 6, 1878 / Died in July 22, 1967 / United States / English

Poems by Carl Sandburg

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Work Gangs

... h, the secret of sleep is left us, sleep belongs to all, sleep is the first and last and best of all ...

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Boes

... bars, went by. And a half a dozen hoboes stood on bumpers between ...

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A Coin

... You are the two that fade away together, ...

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A Million Young Workmen, 1915

... amed a million ghosts of the young workmen rose in their shirts all soaked in crimson … and yelled: ...

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A Tall Man

... in his left wrist run with the right wrist wisdom of the many and the left wrist wisdom of the many ...

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A Teamster's Farewell

... Sobs En Route to a PenitentiaryGOOD-BY now to the streets and the clash of wheels and ...

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A. E. F.

... A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest corner of it ...

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Adelaide Crapsey

... knees, and her head held there listening to the sea, the great naked sea shouldering a load of salt ...

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Alix

... d stand and the crowd of thousands are one pair of legs and one voice standing up and yelling hurrah ...

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All Day Long

... Curls of brown were slipping underneath his cap, ...

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Always the Mob

... at, you my brother—I die for you and I kill you—It is a twisted and gnarled thing, a crimson wool: ...

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Among the Red Guns

... After waking at dawn one morning when the wind sang ...

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An Electric Sign Goes Dark

... in pine and tamarack of the Northwest, stock ranchers in the middle west, mayors of southern cities ...

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And They Obey

... and homes Into loose piles of stone and lumber and black ...

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And This Will be All?

... st and the wind will play around the rusty door hinges and the songs of October moan, Why-oh, why-oh ...